Beirut (dpa) – An explosion hit a gas pipeline in Syria’s restive central province of Homs on Wednesday, the second such blast in less than a week, opposition activists said. The area of Baba Amr, a district of the province’s capital, also called Homs, was “shrouded in black smoke,” activist Hadi al-Abdullah said. “People find [...]
New York (dpa) – The UN General Assembly was to vote this week on a resolution condemning the violent repression of opposition in Syria, a diplomat said. The assembly was expected to convene Thursday or Friday, a diplomatic source said late Tuesday. Its vote would follow the failure of the UN Security Council to pass [...]
Beirut (dpa) – Syrian forces on Tuesday shelled the besieged city of Homs for a tenth consecutive day as the European Union prepared to impose a new round of sanctions on the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, speaking in Berlin ahead of talks with Arab League head Nabil al-Arabi, said the [...]
CAIRO: More than 100,000 civilians are trapped inside the restive area of Baba Amr, in the central Syrian province of Homs, as a result of heavy government shelling that had killed at least 24 people by early evening on Tuesday, an activist said. “The shelling is so intense. People are trapped and they do not [...]
DUBAI: A 27-year-old Filipino woman has pressed charges against a Syrian cook in Dubai and accused him of assaulting her in the United Arab Emirates as she applied for a job. The 34-year-old cook “has been accused of removing his trousers, kissing and groping a woman jobseeker,” who Gulf News reported took the woman to [...]
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Washington (dpa) – Turkey and the United States sent a clear message that the Arab League request for peacekeeping troops in Syria would be impossible without the consent of the Syrian government. “The peacekeeping request is one that will take agreement and consensus,” US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told a press conference Monday [...]
Beirut (dpa) – Syrian forces intensified their assault on restive areas on Monday, killing at least 21 people, activists said, while Russia said it would study an Arab League proposal to send a peacekeeping force to the violence-racked country. “A mission to support peace needs to have peace in place at the very beginning, that [...]
Moscow (dpa) – Russia will study an Arab League suggestion that United Nations peacekeepers be sent to Syria – but violence in the country must end before the troops’ deployment, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday. “A mission to support peace needs to have peace in place at the very beginning, that can [...]
London (dpa) – Britain Monday backed urgent discussion of a call by Arab League foreign ministers on the United Nations Security Council to form a joint Arab-UN peacekeeping force to observe a ceasefire in Syria. “The Arab League could not have sent a clearer message to Syria than the one it sent yesterday and we [...]
Beirut (dpa) – Syrian troops on Monday bombarded restive areas in the province of Homs with heavy artillery, and stormed areas near the capital Damascus, activists said, a day after the Arab League vowed to support the opposition. “The Syrian troops are heavily bombarding the area of Rastan (in Homs) with heavy artillery, hitting residential [...]
Misrata, Libya (dpa) – Libyan militiamen carry automatic weapons, patrol roads and dress like heroes in action moves. But they are less violent than they look, and hardly serve as an warning for Syria. When diplomats talk about military involvement to halt the bloodshed in Syria, they often make comparisons with Libya, whether they back [...]
Vatican City (dpa) – Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday launched a fresh appeal for an end to the violence in Syria, urging authorities to “urgently” address the demands of pro-democracy demonstrators. Benedict, addressing a thousands gathered in St Peter’s Square for his traditional Sunday noon Angelus prayer, referred to the “dramatic and growing episodes of [...]
Tel Aviv (dpa) – Iran has been helping Syria to cope with the international sanctions imposed for its crackdown on protesters and rebels, an Israeli newspaper reported Sunday, citing documents they say were obtained by the hacker group Anonymous. The daily Haaretz placed on its website a link to one of the original Arabic documents [...]
Berlin (dpa) – Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa, in an interview published in Germany on Sunday, called on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to listen to his people. “The best advice for him is to listen to the Syrian people,” the king was quoted as saying by Spiegel Online. Like Syria, authorities in Bahrain are [...]
CAIRO: Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri called on Syrians not to rely on the Arab League or the West in their uprising against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. “Our people in Syria, don’t count on the West, the United States, the Arab governments or Turkey,” al-Zawahiri said in a video posted on an Islamist website [...]
Cairo (dpa) – Arab League foreign ministers are to meet in Cairo Sunday to discuss a proposal for a joint observer mission with the United Nations to Syria, according to sources at the pan-Arab body. The talks are to be preceded by a meeting of the foreign ministers of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council that [...]
Beirut (dpa) – At least 90 people were killed in violence across Syria on Friday, including 28 people who were killed in twin suicide bombings which ripped through two security facilities in the hitherto relatively peaceful city of Aleppo. The bombings, in which another 235 people were wounded according to the Health Ministry, were the [...]
Beirut (dpa) – An explosion ripped through an area in the northern port city of Tripoli late Friday, causing panic hours after clashes broke out between armed Lebanese over Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, a security source said. The blast occurred near Al Jinan University in the mainly Muslim-Sunni neighborhood of Abi Samara, causing material damage [...]
Bern (dpa) – A senior Syrian intelligence official and cousin of President Bashar al-Assad got access to 3 million euros (4 million dollars) parked in Switzerland, despite sanctions against him and other Syrian leaders, news portal 20 Minuten reported Friday. Hafiz Makhlouf, 41, is suspected of having been involved in violent crackdowns on demonstrators. His [...]
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